Author: Gary

How to Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part Two

  Last week, the first article of this three-part series on avoiding boomer boredom focused on (1) finding your essential self, (2) reintegrating yourself and (3) starting a lifestyle business.  This week, we’ll take a look at three more boomer boredom fighters. Why all the concern about boredom? Boredom can lead to the development of… Continue reading How to Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part Two

How to Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part One

  A Certified Financial Planner friend of mine shared a story over breakfast recently.  One of his long-standing clients – let’s call him Jack –  who had fully retired six months earlier called out of the blue with a plea for help.  Having entered his retirement in great financial shape, his call went something like… Continue reading How to Avoid Becoming a “Bored Boomer” – Part One

Your Second Half Should Be Filled with These Four-letter Words

      The second half of life (I’ll optimistically call it the 50-to-100 phase) is rife with both opportunity and challenge. It’s a time when social expectations expect us to begin to “wind down” rather than “rewind”; to “land” and not “take off”; to retire and not rewire; to retreat and not advance. It’s… Continue reading Your Second Half Should Be Filled with These Four-letter Words

Corporate Cooking May Be “Cooking Your Goose”

  I’m a long-time fan of Michael Pollan, author, journalist, food activist and professor of journalism at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. His books “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food” played a major role in raising my awareness of the unhealthy nature of our food industry. His clever, simple and straightforward book,… Continue reading Corporate Cooking May Be “Cooking Your Goose”

Avoiding Retirement Chaos

    Wouldn’t it be terrible to find out that retirement can really suck? After all, you’ve shouldered through a grinding 30-40 year journey filled with marginally-motivating jobs and totally marginal bosses to get to this point. You’ve sacrificed most of your “today’s” for the “tomorrow” that your financial advisor’s constantly changing charts, graphs and… Continue reading Avoiding Retirement Chaos

Good news!  Millennials Can’t Retire!!

    Looks like the media and the financial planning industry is getting their knickers into knots about the prospect of millennials being unable to retire.  The headline for this article from Next Avenue  is certainly an attention getter: “The Bleak Retirement Outlook for Boomer’s Kids.” If you are one who still clings to the… Continue reading Good news!  Millennials Can’t Retire!!